End-board for farm-wagons.



No. 706,434, Patented A ug. 5, i902.

MOR END BOARD FUR FA GUNS.

(Application filed .Tune

(No I'odel.)

UNITED STATES PATENT riucn.

OLYDE S. MORSE, OF SHABBONA, ILLINOIS.

END-BOARD FOR FARM-WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 706,434, dated August 5, 1902.

Application filed .Tune 5,1902.

To all 'Ll/cono t may concern,.-

Beit known that I, CLYDE S. Monsn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Shabbona, in the county of Dekalb and State oflllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in End-Boards for Farm-Wagons; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to end boards for farm-Wagons; and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which shall be simple of construction,durable in use, comparatively inexpensive of prod uction,anei by means of which under certain conditions the contents of the wagon may be removed without removing the end-board.

With this and other objects in view the ment of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim. 1

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an end view of a wagon, illustrating the application of the invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a fragment of the end-board and the side-board of the box. Fie. 3 is a side elevation ofthe cleat; and Fig. 4t is a transverse sectional View through a fragment of the endboard and side-board of the wagon-box, illustrating a modified form of the invention.

Referring to the drawings, l denotes the side-boards of a wagon-box provided on its inner surface at its rear ends with cleats 2, which are bolted in place and are provided with vertically-disposed slots 3, the entrances 4, of which are contracted, as shown at 5.

6 denotes angle-plates,which are bolted one .at each endof sections 7 and 8 of the end- 4displacement of the sections of the board.

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fastener or lock d is carried by the section bA and is adapted to engage a keeper e, formed in the floor of the wagombox.

As shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3, the metal parts are cast, while `as shown in Fig. 4f the same parts are made of malleable iron bent to form. lin this instance the cleat is made of metal of sufficient thickness and bent to form a vertically-disposed slot having a contracted entrance, the ends of said plate being brought together and lapped, and a rivet j" connects the inner wall of the slot and the two overlapping ends. The edges of the cleat have extending through them rivets g, which also pass through the side-boards of thewagonbox and through a washer-plate h. The angie-plate is bent to form a shank c' and a head j. The shank and head correspond to the shank andhead previously described and are adapted to coact with the slot in the cleat in substantially the same manner and for the same purpose previously described..

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, mode of operation, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood without requiring an extended explanation. I

Various cllanges in the form, proportion, and details'of construction may be made Within the scope of the invention without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with the side-boards of a wagon, of an end-board consisting of two sections, cleats secured to the'inner sides of the side-boards and provided with vertically-disposed slots and with a recess or keeper, said slots having contracted entrances, angleplates secured to the ends of the sections of the end-board and provided with heads and Shanks which correspond in shape and iit said vertical slots, one of said sections of the end board being divided into two parts, which IOO parts are hinged together, locks connected to In testimony whereof I have hereunto set the sections of the end-board and adapted to my hand in presence of two subscribing Witengage the keepers of the cleats, and alock nesses.

connected to the hinged part of one of the end- CLYDE S. MORSE. 5 board sections and adapted to engage a keeper -Witnesses in the bottom of the Wagon-box, substantially STELLA MORSE,

as set forth.. E. J. ELLIS. 

